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Dec 4 2018 11:31am
Urgent Action: Saudi activists face the death penalty
Saudi activist Israa al-Ghomgham and four other individuals on trial a...
Nov 22 2018 12:11pm
Urgent Action good news: President pardons two men sentenced to death
James Gatdet and William Endley received a presidential pardon on 31 O...
Nov 21 2018 12:48pm
Urgent Action update: Death sentences quashed, retrial ordered
On 22 October 2018, Bahrain’s Cassation Court overturned the death sen...
Nov 14 2018 5:02pm
Iran: two people executed for gold and currency market manipulation
Vahid Mazloumin and Mohammad Esmail Ghasemi condemned to death after g...
Nov 13 2018 1:49pm
Iran: fears mount for hundreds of Ahwazi Arabs after reports 22 secretly executed
L-r: Mohammad Momeni Timas (reportedly executed), Zoudieh Afrawi a...
Nov 12 2018 4:47pm
Urgent Action: 80-year-old egyptian’s death sentence upheld
On 24 September 2018, the Court of Cassation upheld the death sentence...
Nov 7 2018 4:41pm
Saudi Arabia: 12 Shi'a face imminent execution after cases referred to King Salman
Responding to news that the cases of 12 condemned men from Saudi Arabi...
Oct 31 2018 9:57am
Pakistan: Asia Bibi death sentence overturned in 'important victory for religious tolerance'
Responding to the Pakistan Supreme Court’s decision to acquit Asia Bib...
Oct 15 2018 12:14pm
Urgent Action: Tennessee man at imminent risk of execution
Edmund Zagorski has been on death row in Tennessee for over 30 years a...
Oct 9 2018 11:59pm
World Day Against Death Penalty: powerful video shows horror for families
To coincide with World Day Against the Death Penalty today, Amnesty ha...